Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
| 2 | Crown woods in the Forest of Dean acquired new importance as a profitable source of wood and timber , especially for sale to the ironworks . |
| 3 | The Forest of Dean attracts thousands of visitors a year . |
| 4 | Six months ago , pot-holders in the Forest of Dean complained underground caves were being polluted by old waste dumped in a mineshaft by Watkins Engineering at Sling . |
| 5 | He says that below the Forest of Dean lies one of Britains largest natural reservoirs . |
| 6 | But the diffuse culturalism of the woman-centred definition of lesbianism induces woman-centred psychology to study the emotional satisfactions and positive self-image associated with lesbianism , rather than sexuality ( e.g. Cox 1981 , Mannion 1981 ) . |
| 7 | He asserted that the good people of Inverness owed all they had to the previous conquest and occupation by Cromwell . |
| 8 | MAGIC ITEMS : The Count of Ostland carries two magic items . |
| 9 | W.N. and L.A. Kellogg adopted the then revolutionary idea of rearing an infant chimpanzee in their own home in the 1920s but the experiment with Gua was abandoned after a year because no signs of vocalisation resembling human speech were observed . |
| 10 | Lisa Martin of Ards and Lorna Cardwell of Bangor produced one of the best races ever seen at the Ulster Age group swimming championships last night . |
| 11 | 2.5Barr claimed her first victory today in the 400m Freestyle , leaving nearest rival Justin Boles of Bangor trailing 5 seconds in her wake . |
| 12 | The articles in this issue of Update highlight various important aspects of the development of the new awards : |
| 13 | The deliberate juxtaposition of these rituals of celebration has been done to suggest that the 1830s were years of transition in antislavery culture in which occasions of unity indicated growing divergences within the ‘ movement culture ’ . |
| 14 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks that Unix International seems to be sponsoring ( UX No 423 , 424 ) says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp , the project still lacks the compulsion that galvanized the industry to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 15 | I agree that there appears to be a widely held view that some limit has to be placed upon the recovery of taxes paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand . |
| 16 | However , he went on to hold that the claim failed on another ground , viz. , that as a general rule there will , as a matter of policy , be no recovery of taxes paid pursuant to legislation which is unconstitutional or otherwise invalid . |
| 17 | Tax reform had been low on the political agenda before 1965 , with the basic structure of taxes remaining unchanged for decades . |
| 18 | There will be times when you may want to tailor your style of play to fight particular opponents . |
| 19 | The different purposes of assessment require different kinds of assessment ; the changing content and methods of assessment also require different methods of reporting achievement . |
| 20 | This method of assessment matches two key aims in our new curriculum . |
| 21 | One key area to be addressed is the potential for integration of assessment — that is , to use a single instrument of assessment to assess several outcomes in the same unit or indeed outcomes across more than one unit . |
| 22 | One descriptive account of assessment recommends full psychiatric evaluation , comprehensive observations of the mothers with their infants , and interviews with relatives to estimate future support . |
| 23 | The success of ‘ Darwinism ’ shows that the majority of biologists recognized this point , and the only significant area of debate remaining centred on the problem of heredity . |
| 24 | By contrast to the barn owl , all the other species of owl showed some degree of digestion of the molars of their prey , even when clearly coming from adult birds only . |
| 25 | In the surrounding debris of apartment blocks more militia would be crouched , forming the outer defence ring of the beleaguered stronghold . |
| 26 | So if you find some yeah find some yeah it 's a matter of y'know getting some stuff erm getting some stuff together . |
| 27 | At least two type III repeats of tenascin contain functional sites . |
| 28 | And , most important of all , the number of states using primary elections to select delegates to the convention had risen from 17 in 1968 to 29 in 1976 , with the number of votes cast by delegates chosen or bound by primaries increasing from 37.5 per cent to 72.6 per cent . |
| 29 | The possibility of pairs of states allowing direct communication between their respective authorities , bypassing the consul , is also recognised , as it was in the earlier text . |
| 30 | Successful missionizing activities and the extending of the boundaries and powers of states led secular authorities to an examination of the sources of power and to its exercise . |